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A villainous laugh so remarkably stupid-sounding that, instead of striking fear into the hearts of those who hear it, it causes bouts of uncontrollable sniggering. A Not-So-Harmless Villain may do this on purpose to deflect suspicion. A Minion with an F in Evil is likely to do it by accident. The most pitiful form of the Un-evil Laugh is Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud. In other cases, if there's no lampshade hanging, it may be hard to tell if the writers or actors meant for the laugh to be genuinely menacing and just missed the mark, but only examples that appear to be deliberate on the creators' part should be listed.

Contrast Giggling Villains, whose seemingly unimpressive laughs only make them creepier. Also contrast Annoying Laugh, though it can sometimes coincide. Compare Laugh with Me! in which the villain demands that someone else laugh as well.

Considering how many funny laughs there are in One Piece, villainous examples are there, at least in the audience's ears as they seldom get pointed out at all. Pica's laugh (which barely even sounds like one), however, is so ridiculous that not even Zoro could just stand by and ignore it. The fact the man has a voice like a squeaky toy doesn't help, either.

Pica, now mountain-sized: Pika-pika-pikyararara! Now, can you get away from my atta-?

In an unintentional example of this trope, Chick Tracts represent laughter in writing as HAW HAW HAW.

Fanworks

Shinderella (basically Fate/stay night meets Cinderella meets WTH, Casting Agency?) features Matou Sakura attempting to laugh wickedly as one of the evil stepsisters. The stage directions note that she "actually sounds like someone who is PLAYING IN A SUNLIT FIELD with a group of KITTENS."

Evil Ed from Fright Night (1985) has a voice crackling with pre-puberty and a laugh like a donkey on inhalants. As a vampire, the laugh gets more reverb, but it's still the same goofy laugh.

Intentionally done in Austin Powers in Goldmember, where Scott Evil's laugh sounds more like a mix between screaming and crying, is incredibly hilarious, and gets him reprimanded by Dr. Evil for doing it wrong. By the end, though, he's learned how to have an effective laugh.

Hedley Lamarr in Blazing Saddles makes the mistake of starting an Evil Laugh while sucking on a candy, and almost chokes on it before spitting it out.

From Prince of Space, we have the Phantom's drawn-out, twangy chortle, which sounds like an unholy merger of Burgess Meredith as The Penguin and a car with a bad starter motor. Haaaa-haaaa-haaaa-haaa-haaa-haaa-haaa-haa-haa-haa-haa-haaaa.

Thurman in Dinner for Schmucks has a bizarre one which sounds more like a kettle whistling than laughter.

Literature

In one of the A Series of Unfortunate Events books, Count Olaf has begun practicing a bizarre evil laugh that involves interjecting random words that start with the same letter as whatever onomatopoeia for laughter he happens to be using. He stops doing this in the next book in favor of a more conventional evil laugh, which is mentioned to be something of a relief to the Baudelaires.

Vice-Principle Nero in The Austre Academy is described having a very unrealistic laugh, Lemony Snicket going into detail about how his laughs are said as "te-he-he" is spelled.

Johannes Cabal: One villainous eunuch wizard has a laugh "like a hyaena in a helium-rich atmosphere". Johannes is unimpressed, despite the wizard's power.

Live-Action TV

Raj in The Big Bang Theory, when contemplating Sheldon's humiliation at the hands of Leslie Winkle, comes out with one of the most unconvincing "evil laughs" ever committed to sitcom.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The Nerd Trio do this to convince a demon that they're supervillains. As the script says, "It needs some work."

Phoebe and Joey from Friends attempted to laugh evilly after concocting a scheme to bring Ross and Rachel back together. Unfortunately, Joey kills it.

In Kingdom Hearts II, when the surviving members of Organization XIII first appear to the main character, one can clearly hear Demyx's rather uninspired titter among the collection of otherwise decent Evil Laughs.

Pretty much every class has a laugh that is either supremely annoying or lacking in the intimidation department. Examples include the Scout's fratboy-like chuckles, the Engie's coughing, the Soldier running completely out of breath laughing, and the Medic occasionally sounding like an old lady. The Heavy generally has an impressively bellowing laugh, but it tends to devolve into a somewhat silly "D'ohohoho!"

Most of the Laughably Evil villains of the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games, such as "Chaw-haw-haw!", "Whoa-ho-ho!", and "Heh heh heh!" The more sinister villains will have laughs like "Ooh hoo hoo hoo!", but the most terrifying laugh from those villains would be "MuhehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehahahahahahahahahahahahHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAHAAHAAHAA!!!"

Scorn, the stage 1 boss from Knights of the Round has a hilariously girlish cackle that he can't resist letting fly every so often.

In Mortal Kombat 4, Jarek gives a weird, muffled laugh that sounds more like humming in his and Jax's endings.

Zarok in MediEvil: Resurrection has such a laugh, often sounding rather silly and nana-ish, not to mention that it tends to get interrupted by him having a coughing fit. He actually lampshades it in the same cutscene. He finally gets it right in the end after his defeat in the final battle.

Zarok: "I really need to work on that mocking laugh..."

Webcomics

In Narbonic, Helen Beta Narbon has a proper evil laugh... which lasts for about three seconds before devolving into giggles, titters, and snorts.

Defied by the skeletal Big Bad Xykon: he declines to join his minions in an Evil Laugh because he hasn't been able to muster up a good one since his transformation into a lich robbed him of his lungs.

The vampire possessing Gontor tries for an evil laugh but can only manage an embarrassing "Bwee hee hee hee hee hee!". His patron God of Evil gripes about his poor grasp of "basic villain stuff" on the next page.

The only time where Rex Velvet's video unmistakably "blinks" from being a professed villain is when the camera changes focus as he awkwardly coughs in his closing evil laugh.

ProZD has done severalskits about villains who lack the requisite villain laugh, much to their consternation. In the second of those linked skits, the villain is also secretly furious that his minion has a far better Evil Laugh.

Señor Senior, Junior's laugh (despite his father's best efforts to teach him a proper Evil Laugh).

Ron Stoppable gets turned evil in one episode and Shego is noticeably in pain from hearing his "evil laugh" because it's so terrible. Oddly enough, though, he's actually quite dangerous and competent in all other evil areas.

Played with in The Backyardigans episode "Flower Power". Austin, playing the villain The Gloommeister, performs his Evil Laugh. When asked why he laughs like that, he says that it sounds better than his normal one, and then demonstrates—with a giggle-snort that would have made Steve Urkel proud.

During his stint as a car salesman in The Simpsons episode "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife," Homer attempted to do his own evil laugh on what he thought were some unsuspecting customers. He didn't exactly miss any notes, but without any dramatic echo, music, or shadows, it came across as more awkward and silly than outright menacing.

In an early Halloween episode of King of the Hill, Hank tries to get Bobby into character with his new devil costume by teaching him the proper evil laugh. Hank's own laugh is pathetic enough, but Bobby's bizarre, huffing chuckle is even worse. Hank's response when asked if it sounds evil enough? "Uh, it was...disturbing!"

Played with in Total Drama when Max attempts and fails at evil laughs for a few episodes, but he manages to do a real one later on.

In "Boo-Hoo to You!," when Doc McStuffins's dad tries for an Evil Laugh, it comes out really weak and Doc tells him that he might want to keep trying on it.

In "Toy Hospital: Welcome to McStuffinsville," the half-lion/half-bunny toy Stanley gives a sort of weird barking/coughing laugh when trying for an evil laugh.

Tiggley: What was that?

Stanley: It's my laugh of evil.

Tiggley: Yeah, needs some work.

Peridot in Steven Universe has a laugh that's more of a dorky giggle than anything else. It fits in rather nicely with her rather nonthreatening... everything else.

Peridot: I could call [Garnet]... Lots of things. I could call her (snrk) two things! Two clods! Ahahahaha! Walking around like she's... One clod! Nyeheheheheh!

Lampshaded in Tripping the Rift where Darph Bobo is aware of his unevil laugh and has been practicing. One episode he actually asks Chode and the crew how it's coming along, and they tell him it "needs work and sounds forced".

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